US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 27 for "Displaying a user interface based on activation of a rotatable and depressible input mechanism" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,345, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Displaying a user interface based on activation of a rotatable and depressible input mechanism" was invented by Christopher Patrick Foss (San Francisco), Anton M. Davydov (Gilroy, Calif.), Dylan Ross Edwards (San Jose, Calif.), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Alan C. Dye (San Francisco), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kevin M. Lynch (Woodside, Calif.), Lawrence Y. Yang (San Francisco) and Dennis S. Park (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Button functionalities for user interfaces, e.g., for use with a portable m...